Wednesday, August 12, celebrated as international youth day and Day of Military-air forces of Russia. This day was born, Austrian physicist Erwin schrödinger died German writer Thomas Mann.
Yesterday, August 11, how to write “Rambler”, was the Day of national identity in Armenia and the Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
In the folk calendar of the Slavs August 12 – Vote-povedeny. On this day, dismantled sheds, making room for a summer harness, plow and harrow.
12 Aug American Isaac singer patented sewing machine (1851), was opened in Moscow Gorky Park (1928), on the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site has successfully tested the world’s first hydrogen bomb (1953), in the Barents sea sank the submarine “Kursk” (2000).
12 Aug born Russian Explorer Vitus Bering (1681), writer, the extraordinary occultist Helena Blavatsky (1831), an Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner Erwin Schroedinger (1887), the heir to the Russian throne, Tsarevich Alexei (1904), American financier George Soros (1930), Italian football player Mario Balotelli (1990), English model and actress Cara Delevingne (1992).
12 August died Queen of Egypt Cleopatra (30 BC), the nanny of the poet Alexander Pushkin, Arina Rodionovna Yakovleva (1828), German writer, Nobel prize winner Thomas Mann (1955), author of novels about James bond, Ian Lancaster Fleming (1964).
